Ecclesiastes 7:25
I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Note I applied…: Heb. I and mine heart compassed
I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I applied mine heart
- Heb. I and my heart compassed.
- Ecclesiastes 1:13–17; Ecclesiastes 2:1–3, 12, 20
- the reason
- Ecclesiastes 7:27; Ecclesiastes 2:15; Ecclesiastes 3:16, 17; Ecclesiastes 9:1, 2; Jeremiah 12:1, 2; 2 Peter 2:3–9; 2 Peter 3:3–9
- know
- Ecclesiastes 9:3; Ecclesiastes 10:13; Genesis 34:7; Joshua 7:13; 2 Samuel 13:12; Proverbs 17:12; Proverbs 26:11